Data synchronization in a storage network

A method of synchronizing data, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a first storage agent to a second storage agent, a recent first-agent synchronization point associated with a recent first-agent synchronization time of a first-agent synchronization between the first storage agent with a third storage agent;
• receiving, by the first storage agent from the second storage agent, data that was updated by the second storage agent as determined based on a second-agent baseline that is established based on a second-agent baseline synchronization point associated with a second-agent baseline synchronization time of a second-agent baseline synchronization of the second storage agent with the third storage agent that occurred before the recent first-agent synchronization time;
• and
• reconciling the data received from the second storage agent with corresponding data stored on the first storage agent.

A computer-readable storage medium including instructions that cause a system to perform operations to allocate data to a storage agent of a storage network, the operations comprising:

• receiving, by a first storage agent, a recent second-agent synchronization point associated with a recent second-agent synchronization time of a second-agent synchronization between a second storage agent and a third storage agent;
• determining, based on the recent second-agent synchronization point, a first-agent baseline synchronization point associated with a first-agent baseline synchronization time of a first-agent synchronization between the first storage agent and the third storage agent that occurred before the second-agent synchronization time;
• and
• establishing a first-agent baseline of synchronization of data between the first storage agent and the second storage agent based on the first-agent baseline synchronization point.